The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-10-06
{ SUFFERERS SCHOOL.

OlUllEnETlO OOnUUE.
HOW sfHE HABIT OF srAMMERlNG
Z. Els OFTEN ACQUIRED.
Scenes in the Office of Man Who Makes
Hating Speech Run smoothly-Im-
pedIments OF Speech of Nervous
Character,
s'Young man, how aid you you acquire the
habit. of stutteringY' II u.u-used f.
m::m-mock o man. When be d-d-died I
took his place. The question was by the
professor of q vocal institute, and the
answer by young man who had just an
nounced his intention Of taking series OF
lessons. A reporter was present, and sit
ting around the room were several intellt-
gent looking young men, the most CT whom
could speak as fluently as any one. AL
declared that they had until recently been
most inveterate sufferers or stammerers.
The Doctors question suggested an inter-
esting train of thought. The reporter put
the same question to each of the patients
In turn. f'Wheh I was about @ years of
age,' said number one, 81 commenced to
stutter O little. Then we moved to a
strange place and went to school. I
was very diffldenti and the teacher at
tempted to force me to read and recite.
The scholars laughed at me, became
more diffident, and soon the habit was
fixed on me.n
II am his brother,' said number two.
IT learned it Of him."
"When I was Soing,h said number
three, III used to play all the time with
another boy who was horrible stutterer,
and learned it Of him. Whenever 1 was
out with the boys and didn't think Of it
I would sometimes flnG myself talking aH
right, but as soon as thought about it I
would commence again. NY little brother
afterward learned It of ine:''
Number four said he learned the habit
from another boy, but would have con-
quered it had not his teacher forced him
to read and recite, at which times he be-
came so nervous as to lose all control of
himself. All had acquired the habit at
the age of OFT.
OF A NERVOUS NATURE.
''That accords with the most of my ex-
perience," said the doctor; "these impedi-
ments of speech are for the most part of
nervous nature. Lack Of will power, the
telegraphic system of the body out Of
order, imperfect connection between the
brain and muscles of speech. All this
trouble sometimes arises from sudden
fright. One patient Of mine, young
lady, was slightly seized with stammering
at the time of the great fire. Afterward
she saw a COW catch little child on its
horns. She was paralyzed with fright,
unable to scream or move. The animal
tossed the child into the air. She rushed
to the spot and the child was fatally in
jured. After that the lady was a bad case
of confirmed stammering.
zone of the worst cases ever had was
that of q young man. When he was
boy Of 6 or Z years Of age his father
threatened, il he committed q certain Of
tense, to throw him into the well. The
boy committed the offense, and his father
held him for moment over the well head
downward. From that time OH the boy
could not talk plainly. Many children
acquire this malady in infancy, just as
they are beginning to talk. Their parents
or nurses tickle them, sometimes on the
bottoms of the feet, thinking the loud
laughter thus excited amusing. The pa
papa which the little ones cry out at such.
times is the first inception of the habit Of
suffering.
The doctor is jolly fellow, Of fine ply
sique and great personal magnetism, with
the voice and laugh of lion, If lion can
be imagined as laughing. In training his
Ill ~ ~, f1,o
way in the world, to talk Of all sorts Of in
teresting subjects, and soon an infection Of
good feeling seizes all present. He roars
out his words with such force and fuency
from the depths of his immense lungs that
talking seems the easiest thing In the
world. Occasionally a remark is ad-
dressed to some member of the class in O
conversational sort of way, and before
they know it everybody seems to be able
to talk. Occasionally he goes the rounds
Of the class with various vocal exercises
for the development of certain muscles.
SOME OF THE EXERCISES.
Here are few of the exercises. Some
ministers and actors would do well to
practice them:
'.Amos Ames, the amiable aeronaut,
aided in an aerial enterprise at the age
of SS.,'
'Obtain all opportunities of obliterat-
ing obnoxious ostentations."
"Henry bingham has hung his harp on
the hook where he hitherto hung his
hopes" What nut for o Cockney to
crack.
II like white vinegar with veal very
we'll"
"she sells sea shells. Shall he sell sea
shellss"
sQuixote Quixite quizzed o queerish
quidbox: Where is the queerish quidbox
Quixote iQuiXite quizzedY'
When the pupils can recite these SEN
tences and hundred or 30 similar ones
fluently they are graduated.
A clear cut, elegant and fluent utter
anceis one of the greatest graces wita
which person can be gifted. 1t tells IL
most the whole story Of ones birth, early
training and associations. The different
kinds of faulty elocution are known as
suffering, stammering, hesitancy, lisp
ing, exhausted breath, nasal sound and
improper articulation. Many people fall
under SO complete list as this, who in
some instances could improve their utter
ance by little private practice and atten-
tionrto the matter A stutterer has the
most difficulty in uttering lingual sounds,
such as words beginning with l., while the
stammerer stumbles over the labial
sounds, of Which words beginning with B
are an example Both habits are accom-
panied with facial distortion, and some
times with n writhing or twitching of the
whole body. That these are nervous of
fections is shown by the devices resorted
to to get over some difficult letter or
sound, as swapping the finger or stamping
the foot. ~ shut m-m-my fist tight"
said stammerer, "and the electricity
runs up my arm and lets the sound
c-c-come out" At the letter G he drove
his finger nails clear into the palm of his
hands.-Chicago Herald.